Re: [PATCH] m32r: Revise __raw_read_trylock()

[Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 05:27:08AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> You're assuming:
> 
>  - a spinlock is an atomic_t.
>  - Said atomic_t uses RW_LOCK_BIAS to indicate locked/unlocked.
> 
> This is true for m32r, but not for sparc.

That makes sense, thanks for the clarification.

> SuperH looks completely broken -- I don't see how holding a read lock
> prevents someone else from getting a write lock.  The SH write_trylock
> uses RW_LOCK_BIAS, but write_lock doesn't.  Are there any SMP SH
> machines?

Yes, it's broken, most of the work for that has been happening out of
tree, and we'll have to sync it up again. The initial work was targetted
at a pair of microcontrollers, but there were too many other issues
there that the work was eventually abandoned. Recently it's started up
again on more reasonable CPUs, so we'll be fixing these things up in
order.
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